“Why domestic work?

You’ve got two years of nursing school on here.”

There was a pause on the line.

He remembered thinking she was going to lie.

“Because my mother died when I was eleven,” she said, “and my father worked nights, and I raised my brother from the time I was twelve.

I’m good at running a house and I’m good with children, and I found that out the hard way, and I stopped nursing school because I couldn’t pay for it.

That’s the honest answer.